Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-01-25
Titled lEarringcS.

Titled Marriages.
If be true that Lord Randolph Church
i'll and his beautiful American wife fad the
bonds of matrimony SO onerous that they
will bear them no longer, it is the most for
cible protest of the day against the marriage
of American girls to foreigners of any ne
ton simply because Of their rank. 1t had
beer supposed that this was the one couple
whose amicable relations were without
cloud. The ADglomauiac American matron
was wont to point to them, when taken to
task touching her anxiety to epgraft her ten
der bud upon some noble Britannia family
tree Whenever it was stated that out OF
thirty-one marriages Of American misses 10
German barors, French counts, and Italian
princes there were but three of the wives liv
ing with their titled husbands, the answer was
that when we considered England it was
different There was Lady Harcouft the
daughter OF The historian, Motley, who WIS
still in the home of her lord and master,
and Lady Churchill These two were cited
as models OF the transplanted American
women who Aourished and grew apace Oh
British soil The truth about Lady Har
court is very well known to few. She is no
longer in her first youth, and Ion. endur-
ance has weakened her capacity to resist.
So she bears her cross, for cross it is, and will
to the end. Lady Churchill is of different
type Extremely handsome, full ofspirit and
wit, she should have succeeded, ifsuccess be
possible She has done he. duty TO her
husband as legally as ever woman did it.
Daring the canvass OF last fall for his par
liamentary seat Lady Churchill took hand
so vigorously that it was common saying
represented, that Lord Rsndy's American
wife pulled him through"
No American woman with n titled hn5-
band WAS SO we'll known on both sides Of
the ocean as was Lady Churchill. AS Miss
Jerome she was one of the bellies of New
York before her marriage, whose right 10
birthhood was uudisputed. Those who knew
her liked her as much for her goodness Of
heart aud womanly worth as for her beauty.
When twelve years ago her husband met
and married her she became as great ia
vorite at Blenheim the historic seat of the
Duke of Marlborough, as she had been in
New York Fer brother-in-law, the Mar
qnis of Blandlord, the eldest son of the Dake
of Marlborough, treated her with courtesy,
and spoke more respectfully Of her than of
any woman living except his mother. That
fine old English gentleman, the Duke, her
father-in-law, who was the living image OF
Mr Reverdy Johnson, fairly dotted on bis
sons pretty. bright, young American wife.
Even the Queen, whose intensely British
prejudice could never endure foreigners"
took to the American girl, who, SO far from
home and all she had ever been accustomed
to. bore q brave heart in her fits Of hcimiUeh
and loneliness. To be sure, there were old
fellows, relics of the days when George the
Fourth was King, who calmly looked on
and said, "Wait The bad black drop CT
blood that the Marboroughs have
inherited from the head Of the house, John
Churchill, mustout in Randy. Il is in them
ALL" Well, it looks as though these Jobs
comforters are right in their prophecy. The
black drop has come out in the present
Duke, and with q vengeance. he is forty
two years old. Before he was thirty he had
figured twice in the most disgracefuI cases
OF seduction. At thirty he hsd ruined the
wife of his bosom friend, poor Aylesford,
who died year CT two ago far away from
home and friends His own wife he drove
almost to desperation, until her friends
would not permit him to kill her body and
soul, and tool, her broken. hearted back to
her chidhood's homo. This is the record
of the head of the great house Of Marlbor
ough. The second son, it seems, is going
the same way. With phenomenal advance
ment, for he is but eight andthirty, until
within the fortnight past, he was at the
head of the most powerful bureau-so far as
patronage goes-there is in the English Cab
met but one. And now he has fallen so
low that his wife can no longer endure his
repeated violations of the solemn oath he
took before God, and will return to her
childhcod's home. Her life is ruined, bro
ken, and ended long before her time. The
incident furnishes an awful warning. See
what life sweet Minnie King, of Georgia,
has led since she married the wild, wicked
Anglesey, the grandson of Lord Uxbridge,
the handsomest and most elegant man of
his day, who next to the Irou Duke won
Waterloo, ard was made q Marquis for his
| callantry. Think of ths pretty Miss Yzna-
ga, married TO the pimply- y-faced, thin-legged
! son aud heir OF the Duke of Manchester,
living from hand to mouth, waiting for her
husbands father to die Vaudeville, it is
said, has lived upon what James Gordon
Bennett and one of the young Vanderbilts
have loaned him. And the story might be
stretched to the crack of DOOM